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Has anyone had experience with Rossignol Insulated (Thinsulate Featherless) jackets like Depart or Hero?
I have always worn jacket with just a little bit of insulation, together with base and mid-layers and have no experience with those more insulated ones.
From the first glance they seem a much more convenient alternative, as you can skip the mid-layer or at lest wear a thinner one.
Is it worth to look this way, or better to stay with any of the regular, less or non-insulated jackers (not the Featherless ones) and layers?
Thanks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Way back when, Thinsulate was C&A (Rodeo - remember them?) faux GoreTex .
I'm guessing it has evolved since then 
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Isn't Gore-Tex a breathable membrane, where as "Thinsulate" is thermal insulation?
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On the OP, I don't know, I avoid insulated jackets as they're less flexible and tend to be fashion as opposed to performance oriented.
I have an Arc'teryx Atom mid-layer which is synthetic fill, so in principle trying to do the same thing the Thinsulate is doing in those insulated jackets.
The advantage is flexibility. For what it is, I like Thinsulate, which seems to do what it's supposed to.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| philwig wrote: |
Isn't Gore-Tex a breathable membrane, where as "Thinsulate" is thermal insulation?
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On the OP, I don't know, I avoid insulated jackets as they're less flexible and tend to be fashion as opposed to performance oriented.
I have an Arc'teryx Atom mid-layer which is synthetic fill, so in principle trying to do the same thing the Thinsulate is doing in those insulated jackets.
The advantage is flexibility. For what it is, I like Thinsulate, which seems to do what it's supposed to. |
Agree, insulation rather than one way vapour permeable barrier.
Made of polyethylene / polypropylene fibre that offers alternative to down / feather layer for heat insulation without interference with vapour barrier when combining the the two layers.
Has advantage over down in being layer form when stitched into garment to avoid piling into clumps. Also doesn't absorb water unlike down. May not out perform down thermally in ultimate sense but can when wet so depends on conditions in which you need to use it.
Thinsulate, is just 3M trademark for this material.
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